[slively]

I think a common reply to this would be that it’s hard to change laws when an oligarchy has so much power, and siphoning the money and power from the oligarchs has to come first. Unions are one approach to attempt to do this. Unions are the workers that join them, and one of the more positive developments lately is the push to have more democratic unions. The teamsters even just changed their leadership drastically in this direction.

[kennend3]

I'm Canadian but lived in the US for several years.

One takeaway from my time in the US is they really need to address its "lobbying" rules. We have a bit of a lobbying problem here, but no where near the level we see to the south.

When you do crazy things like rule that corporations are "natural people" when clearly they are not..

I have no clue how to fix this, but Lobbying is really bad which is why it is tightly controlled in most other countries.

[epakai]

One proposed solution is to get rid of Sunshine laws. Make legislative votes secret again, and legislators are harder to hold to account. Cuts both ways, but it might have an outsized effect on moneyed interests' ability to buy their way.